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Audit committee characteristics and firm performance during the global financial crisis
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
We address the question ‘do governance enhancing audit committee (AC) characteristics mitigate the firm performance impact of significant-adverse-economic events such as the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)?’ Our analysis ...
Does adopting good corporate governance impact the cost of intermediated and non-intermediated debt?
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
This study examines the impact of good corporate governance practices on the reported cost of debt for Australian listed companies. Prior research has established that governance lowers the cost of non-intermediated debt ...
Colonial cleansing: Laws for a summer resort in China
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
In the leased territory of Weihaiwei, China (1898–1930), public health and related laws played an important part in the local British government’s effort to create and maintain a summer resort for European visitors. These ...
USE OF EPORTFOLIOS IN K-12 TEACHER HIRING IN NORTH CAROLINA: PERSPECTIVES OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
, 2012 , Article)
This study explored the perceptions of principals involved in the hiring process of K–12 teachers in 11 counties in southeastern North Carolina. Forty-nine principals responded to a survey on ePortfolio use in the hiring ...
Resource allocation with interference mitigation in femtocellular networks
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2012 , Article)
The introduction of femtocells enabled high data rates and better indoor coverage without the need for expanding or increasing the density of cellular networks deployment or upgrading the cellular network infrastructure. ...
ArabicTutor: a Multimedia m-Learning Platform for Learning Arabic Spelling and Vocabulary
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IEEE
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Internet-enabled Mobile devices are increasingly used for enhancing the learning experience particularly for language learning. They can be exploited to allow learners to access and interact with multimedia learning resources ...
Constitution-making in the 21st century
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Constitutions have been made or changed in major ways in more than half the countries of the world in recent decades. This article deals with contemporary approaches to constitution-making, organising the analysis around ...
Harmonizing formal requirements for cross-border sales contracts
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2012 , Article)
Legal systems have different traditions about how to “prove” a contract for the sale of personal property. Most legal systems today permit the contract to be proved by any means but some States require that the agreement ...
A Web-based Platform for Mobile Service Delivery
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Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF)
, 2012 , Article)
The project presented in this paper involves designing and developing a web-based platform called “Content Management & Delivery Platform” (CMDP) in support of mobile service delivery that integrates with the mobile network ...
Use of GIS or Mapping for Case Assignment
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2012 , Presentation)
A technical paper where I presented SESRI way to locate potential respondent in CAPI surveys using GPS and paper maps to assist field interviewers to locate housed and offices easily and effectively, in this presentation, ...